I wondered how long it would be before folks outside of the DSL Tools/VSX/SF community started to pick up on the fact that T4 is in every VS box as of VS 2008. Here's my answer... Kirill Chilingarashvili has a nice example of turning some weakly typed...

This video is very amusing for Microsofties and maybe helps lift the veil to outsiders on why we're such a corporate powerhouse ;-) If I never have to hear that music again it will be too soon.

Sujit D'Mello of Microsoft Consulting Services will be presenting on DSL Tools at this user group next week. February 7th , 2007 Implementing domain specific languages with Visual Studio 2008 - Sujit D'Mello , Microsoft · Overview of Domain Specific Languages...

More catching up. I was asked about case studies in my webcast today. A good while ago, Clemens announced that Microsoft and Sogeti published a full case study of using the DSLs in Visual Studio 2008 Team Architect Edition in the financial sector. Technorati...

I hear from Michael that LEGO is celebrating its 50th anniversary. I'm quite certain that LEGO and my natural desire to build, destroy, rebuild, morph, combine and synthesize formed a virtuous circle in my childhood that had a significant impact in setting...

As we discuss in Chapter 8 of our book , it's a relatively taxing problem to do high fidelity synchronization of code and models in the cases where there's some abstraction gap between the two. Jean-Marc Prieur of the DslFactory community in France has...

Just realized I'd failed to advertise my MSDN webcast tomorrow, entitled Domain-Specific Development with Visual Studio DSL Tools . I'll be talking a little bit about the pattern that is enshrined in DSL Tools and walking through building a basic class...

Gerardo de Geest, Antoine Savelkoul and Aali Alikoski of Avanade have an interesting presentation and article about building a framework to support the evolution of languages using DSL Tools. Based on this work, Avanade hopes to be able to migrate models...

Quan To , our top-notch, shiny new program manager on the team, is blogging. I'm sure it's going to be fabulous (no expectation setting there then Quan ;-) ) Welcome to the team.